#francois levaillant

[podartists]

L' Ara Canga | François Levaillant | Histoire naturelle des perroquets t.1 | rawpixel

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A new variant has been added!

Rufous Crab Hawk (Buteogallus aequinoctialis) © Francois Levaillant

It hatches from black, brown, chunky, clean, coastal, conspicuous, dark, great, immature, large, low, rusty, unmistakable, and white eggs.

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Le Perroquet Cendré. Pl. 99. 

Extrait de l'Histoire naturelle des perroquets, by François Levaillant. Paris, 1805.

[modernizor]

Illustrations from the 1806 Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Rolliers, suivie de celle des Toucans et des Barbus by François Levaillant and Jacques Barraband

[dendroica]

Le Coq de roche male by peacay on Flickr.

Hand-coloured engraving by Jacques Barraband from the 1st decade of the 1800s for Francois Levaillant's 2-vol. book, 'Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux de paradis et des Rolliers, suivie de celle des Toucans et des Barbus'. (lots more coming from this book in next few days) image was modestly spot-cleaned in the background. No adjustment to colour : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock-of-the-rock goo.gl/jdQPV (image search) ---------------------- ------------------------- ----------------------------- On the topic of beautiful illustrations of birds, see metafilter's post about Audubon's elephant folio set being digitised recently: www.metafilter.com/109828/Audubon-Birds-of-America Also: www.linesandcolors.com/2011/11/27/audubons-birds-of-america/

[oxane]

Le Tamatia, a collier noir by peacay